True Bear Stories
Joaquin Miller
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones. And he always defends bears, which he thinks have gotten an undeserved bad reputation from the general populous.
Miller strives here to pass on a respect for the variety and wisdom in the lives of real bears. But perhaps we should offer one caution: throughout his life Joaquin Miller gained a reputation for being a supreme liar! (summary by Bill Boerst) (4 hr 24 min)
Chapters
| Preface and Introductory Notes | 14:33 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| A Bear on Fire | 16:54 | Read by Ares Krstic |
| Music-Loving Bears; My First Grizzly | 19:50 | Read by DJRickyV |
| Twin Babies | 12:09 | Read by Geza Hrazdina |
| In Swimming With a Bear | 15:49 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| A Fat Little Editor and Three Little Browns; Treeing a Bear | 21:16 | Read by DJRickyV |
| Bill Cross and His Pet Bear; The Great Grizzly Bear | 23:25 | Read by DJRickyV |
| As a Humorist; A Grizzly's Sly Little Joke; The Grizzly as Fremont Found Him | 8:25 | Read by Chris A. Hawkins |
| The Bear With Spectacles | 12:55 | Read by Leara Morris-Clark |
| The Bear Slayer of San Diego | 17:20 | Read by Joseph Tabler |
| The Alaskan and Polar Bear | 12:39 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Monnehan, the Great Bear Hunter of Oregon | 9:41 | Read by RLC |
| The Bear 'Monarch.' Part A | 18:44 | Read by Geza Hrazdina |
| The Bear 'Monarch.' Part B | 19:52 | Read by Geza Hrazdina |
| The Bear 'Monarch.' Part C | 13:48 | Read by Brookpundt |
| Scientific Classification of Bears | 27:15 | Read by Larry Wilson |